This topic that you have brought up today is one that I have had deep engagement in because I share your concerns about these congregate care facilities. Back in 2018, I was the first Member of the House or Senate to go down to the border…

let me go to the policy issue. I know this is very important to my colleague from Florida. And when families are wrestling with this issue, they have the sympathies of all of us. Here is what concerns me: Families struggling to afford IVF…

I am taking the floor tonight to ring the alarm bells for our democracy, with grave concerns about the opening up of a casino for betting on our elections. Imagine this. Election day is approaching. Ultrarich Americans and huge…

I am announcing my intent to object to any unanimous consent request to proceed to the nomination of John Bradford Wiegmann to be the General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), subject to the Department…

The Transnational Repression Policy Act, which was introduced by Senators Merkley, Rubio, Cardin, and Hagerty, includes provisions in all these areas.

The Transnational Repression Policy Act, which was introduced by Senators Merkley, Rubio, Cardin, and Hagerty, includes provisions in all these areas.

the number one issue in the confirmation hearings for the Commissioner was this overpayment question.

Social Security is only part of the structure in which we help with retirement, and more affluent Americans benefit enormously from tax-sheltered retirements.

I ask unanimous consent that my interns be granted floor privileges for their shadow days as follows: Mabel Knapick for September 18, 2024; Amelia Nason for September 25, 2024; Sophia Spry for November 14, 2024; Sophie Davenport for…

We want to derail this ill-advised House proposal to not make things worse.

I said everybody has got to pay their fair share. No special exemptions for billionaires.

So is that basic structure that he accurately described, is that a flaw or is that a future?

The American people do not want to see that happen to the Social Security guarantee.

the question for the Congress and for the Senate is do we want to take the steps that the Chairman outlined

I encourage all of us to actually act now, rather than waiting.

I just want to make it clear that my door is open.

If Republicans want to come up with a proposal that restores solvency while avoiding benefit cuts, as the standing ovation at the State of the Union promised, Democrats are all ears.

it would make it harder to do the bipartisan work on overpayments that we talked about in the Finance Committee.